Perfumes Quotes
59 quotes by 50 authors
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Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it…
— Heinrich Heine
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A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to…
— Wilferd Peterson
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The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes…
— Eric Hoffer
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The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes,…
— Juvenal
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After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark,…
— Karel Capek
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I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.
— Gabriela Mistral
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Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.
— Ray Bradbury
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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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If I were a maker of perfumes, I would make one and call it 'Spring,' and it would smell like this cool, sweet, early-morning air.
— Ann Petry
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The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.
— Henry Vaughan
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Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors…
— Unknown Author
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.
— Marc Jacobs
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I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most…
— Alan Rickman
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I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show is being prepared,…
— Alber Elbaz
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You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes…
— Ray Bradbury
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Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can…
— Philip Roth
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The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted…
— Malcolm X
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(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand…
— Ray Bradbury
Who Wrote These Perfumes Quotes
50 authors contributed a total of 59 Perfumes Quotes, led by these top contributors: